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WS Ref #: 1133 , Witness: Annie Barrett, Intelligence Agent IRA, Cork, 1921
... through Killavullen Post Office. The message was taken by my brother (wireless operator home on leave ... were supposed to have been cut, the wire connecting the barracks to the Post Office was left intact ... the military came to the Post Office and with Post Office engineers had the lines repaired. When ...
... 11/2 years. I entered the Post Office Service as a telephonist at Killarney in 1906.. After about six ... travelled to my home at Killavullen from my work in Mallow Post Office each evening, usually by cycle ...
... requiring urgent attention I utilised the services of a Post Office messenger to deliver the message ... was to be enforced was "TURKEY". I should have pointed out the Mallow Post Office was a key centre as all ...
... , enclosed in a telegram envelope and sent by Post Office messenger. (b) Ballyvourney Ambush: British Forces ... were being cut continually at this time and the nearest Money Order Post Office was Kanturk, hence ...
... successful in my activities as Intelligence Agent for the I.R.A. while a servant of the Post-Master ...
WS Ref #: 1099 , Witness: George C Duggan, Assistant to Under Secretary for Ireland, Dublin Castle, 1919 - 1922
... 17. Transport Department of the Admiralty. I was not to leave it for four and a half years. My only link with the Chief Secretary's Office consisted in the receipt of my monthly salary cheque, to which on my promotion to an Acting Superintending Clerkship post in the Admiralty in January, 1915 ...
... to it was made easy by the unselfish help given to me by Joseph Brennan who had been keeping the post warm ... of knowing him personally in my previous stay in the office owing to the water-tight compartment system ... considerable stress fox in addition to finance he had a finger in most other pies in the office helping ...
... for such an appointment was found in the post of Commissioner to which General Redvers Buller (later ... the whole life of the office for two years., I' do not know what were the inner feelings of Lord Aberdeen ... in the Chief Secretary's Office and as there was no Irish Parliament he could not show himself there. He ...
... financial policy. In the re-organisation my post, on the financial side of the office, was regarded ... blue-eyed Englishman whose part it was to bring into the office the scientific outlook of the Home Office on crime; there was N.G. Loughnane of the Ministry of Pensions whose Irish antecedents were ...
... - namely resignation from my post if the crisis reached the climax of force. It never occurred to me ... life of the chief Secretary's Office continued its normal course. The Treasury was in a saving mood: small as was the office they decided that, it should be smaller. My immediate chief, Lawrence ...
... , when still an official of junior rank,, he had had the post of Under-Secretary within his grasp ... oblivion. In the year 1918 he had obtained the post of Assistant Under-secretary. From the very moment ... caught up every branch of office work - finance, crime, appointments. His remarkable accuracy ...
... , had ended and he was ensconced' in the leisured post of Registrar of Petty Sessions Clerks. The next ... Office, but our protests were unavailing. It was apparent that the recommendation of Sir Henry ... transferred from one Ministerial post to another brings his former Private Secretary with him, sometimes ...
... 16. That at least meant that one need not feel bound to remain in a Civilian post while others were joining up. So when matters began to settle down again to more normal routine in the office I asked myself whether trained as I had been as a Private in the Territorial Army in London (the Artists ...
... been the practice for Cabinet Ministers to be handed on from one post to another, striding like ... apprenticeship in the Colonial Office, has been in turn Secretary of the National Insurance Commission ...
... reason for his selection for the post, for the Government knew that the cumbersome machinery ... his twenty-one months of tenure of office as Under-Secretary yet he kept an unbiassed mind throughout. ...
... training in the Customs and by instinct, he seemed at first sight a curious choice for the post ... of a whole office but of the police land prisons' organisation, while simultaneously busying himself ...
... Cale) Chapter 111. Chief Secretary's Office - second phase 1912-4. The Shadow of Civil War ... Party. With the Bill itself the rank and file of the Chief Secretary's Office was not allowed to have ... Office in London and was hardly ever seen in Dublin) but by the British Parliamentary Counsel's Office ...
... from time to time. He reorganised the office in imagination scores of times and always ... some work but when years later I met him in the Home Office I doubt if he did any. At that later period one could not get away merely by leaving the office, for he had a cheque to cash at the Bank ...
... . Subject. Chief Secretary's Office, Dublin Castle, 1912-1914, and 1919-1921. Conditions, if any ...
... 2. He in turn would have consulted the financial Principal Officer in the Chief Secretary's Office ... compartments even a small Government office can be divided, I mention in passing that though I was a year in the office before Sir Frederick Cullinan retired, I never met him and to the best of my belief I ...
... was to disappear as Anderson was being given wide financial powers derived from the dual post that he ... of the Treasury who after a few years of business life in London post-war now desired a return to the better ... capacity of Chairman of the British Civil Service Commission, a post which ...
... on 5th August when there arrived from the Home Office in London copies of the various Proclamations ... office became the medium through which the Home Office handled the problem of aliens, enemy ...
... Office did - a wide knowledge of many codes of law. I was given to help me in these researches Edward ... been appointed with an office in Belfast to maintain contact with the shadow Cabinet ... . On St. Patrick's Day 1921, an office holiday, I received an urgent ...
... 42. occasion. Sir John had other preoccupations on his mind for the internal political situation in Ireland was ominous. The pictures which an Office of Works Architect had selected to adorn the dining room walls seemed to add to the sombre effect. In lighter vein a few days afterwards we saw one ...
... 9. going on in the office by means of a weekly "journal", but doubtless what an earnest official thought worthy of record was but chicken feed to him. The Opposition, nay even his own friends ... -up rage, outside the Under Secretary's Office waiting to be admitted. At the meeting that ensued he ...
... of everything done in the office and this meant preparing memoranda and answering numerous questions ... and not to the office staff, ...
... 21. to my arranging that my assistant Brennan would share my room with me because in his view Brennan was suspect. He clearly wanted the office to be divided into two camps, the pro-Taylors ... directions. Apart from the more efficient work that is done in a "happy" office, it is not easy ...
... was to cross to London that night. This was almost an unheard-of procedure in the history of the office as normally it was thought that the two officials stationed at the Irish office in London were quite ...
... 18. CHAPTER V111. CHIEF SECRETARY'S OFFICE, DUBLIN 1919-21. THE LAST DAYS OF DUBLIN CASTLE. I came back to Dublin Castle realising that the scene there had been transformed since I left it four and a half years before. The Rising of 1916 had left its indelible mark, there had been the abortive ...
... Office conditional on this being done, though I have also known cases where to have fallen out ...
... was attached to the "Crime Special" Branch of the Chief Secretary's Office, though as he returned ...
... Office under the rule of Sir John Anderson exhilarating and something new was always being learnt ...
... that someone from the Senior Staff in the Chief Secretary 's Office must go to Belfast to help ...
... 41. Staff, Martin Jones, whom I have already sketched, was an Englishman though all his service had been in Ireland and would naturally gravitate to the London Home Office, as he had no experience of Finance and the Ministry of Home Affairs in Belfast did not seem to want him, having already ...
WS Ref #: 1516 , Witness: P.H. Doherty, Commandant IRA, Donegal, 1921
... 19. In May, 1921, a raid was carried out on the train at Ballymagan. A consignment of money in transit to the post office in Carndonagh was removed from a mail bag. The money taken helped. to maintain the column in cigarettes and food until the truce. Signed: Patrick. H. Doherty Date: 16th October ...
... the telephone equipment from the post office in Carndonagh. The post office was situated across ... a barricade in front of the post office and entering the office from the front. In favour of that plan I ... around the square and entering the office by the rere. I was one of the party ...
... 14. detailed to enter the office. We proceeded to the back door of the premises and when we knocked and called on the post master to open the door he immediately blew a whistle. The R.I.C. must either have information or anticipated such a raid. Following on the whistle blast fire was opened from ...
... to burn the documents in the Income Tax office in Carndonagh. The office was situated in a room ...
... original strength. During my term of office in Ballyshannon a meeting under the auspices of Sinn ...
WS Ref #: 886 , Witness: Michael W O'Reilly, Adjutant IV, Dublin Brigade, 1916
... , and as we came right opposite the Post Office at precisely twelve o'clock, the order to halt was given ... into the Post Office and took up positions which had in some measure been previously allotted to them. The Post Office was occupied with comparative ease, there was very little shooting and, beyond ...
... and, as the heat grew, there was considerable excitement at the Post Office, and water and still more ... for them and, in fact, some of them did, I believe, get back to the Post Office. However, our own turn was not far behind and on Friday morning an incendiary shell struck the roof of the Post Office ...
... , I was again called down to the Governor's office and informed that, since they had no means of dealing with letters and parcels, we would have to set up a post office or sorting office of our own ...
... -7- vehicles and transported back to the Post Office, and so Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday passed over, everybody being engaged in some manner or means, either in making home made bombs or filling more sand bags, securing water or many other things that such a situation demands, and then the first ...
... was brought into much closer touch with the Head Office at No.2 Dawson Street where I met ...
... -5- all Easter Sunday and devoted myself very largely to some office work which had been neglected during the previous few days. In the evening of Easter Sunday, I had a visit from, among others, Captain Torn Hunter, who advised me that the Supreme Council was still in session and he expected ...
WS Ref #: 1040 , Witness: Francis Carty, Officer IRA, Wexford, 1921
... and remained at the Post Office while two of our men were trying to commandeer alternative transport. There were already ten or fifteen of our men on garrison duty in the Post Office but the men who had been in the lorry were resting on the footpath. I was standing in the door of the Post Office ...
... by Free State troops; one of these was the Castle in Enniscorthy and the other consisted of the Post Office and the Castle in Ferns. It was decided that these posts should be occupied by our troops ...
... 34. cruising along outside the Post Office. I decided that we would not "fight on to the death" as nothing was to be gained by doing so, and we surrendered and were taken prisoners. The Free State convoy which had captured us consisted of several hundred men with four or five armoured cars and one ...
... had some hair-brained ideas, one of which included the dispatch of a grenade by parcel post ...
WS Ref #: 1100 , Witness: John Sharkey, Officer IRA, Tipperary, 1921
... 10. Post Office when the time came and to seize the reports before they left Clonmel. Here again ... their monthly reports and I was tipped off by my friends in the Post Office that the reports would ... man knew his position and exactly what he was to do, but, before proceeding to the Post Office, I ...
... received information from friendly assistants in the Post Office that the R.I.C. in Clonmel Divisional Headquarters sent monthly reports by post to the R.I.C. H.Q. in Dublin. I was anxious td get hold ... made arrangenients with the friendly post office assistants to be informed of the next occasion ...
... . It was based chiefly on information received through the post office. In this respect invaluable assistance ... passed through Clonmel Post Office on its way to the R.I.C. The telegraph messenger in Clonmel ...
... 12. arrested there and then. I also gathered from him that they were aware of the proposed hold-up of the post office but I never succeeded in finding out by whom or in what way they were tipped off about it. In addition to my contacts in the post bffice, I also had contacts amongst the employees ...
... it Was addressed. The postman returned to the post office and reported the occurrence. As, however, he ...
... Sean Cooney, whom I have previously mentioned, held the post of battalion engineer for some time ...
... . Our mission (Cooney's and mine) to brigade headquarters resulted in the removal from office ...
... from an R.I.C. sergeant, who was a clerk in the District Inspector's office at the time my home ...
WS Ref #: 1530 , Witness: Christopher O'Connell, Member IV, Eyeries, Cork, 1916; Commandant, 1921
... but, as there was no prospect of capturing the post, all sections were withdrawn to Castledonovan. All ... company, Bantry battalion. We crossed from Kealkil to Comhola and along the old bog road that leads to the main Bantry-Glengariff road at Crosadawooher. In order to avoid the Auxiliary force stationed ...
... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21. STATEMENT BY WITNESS. DOCUMENT NO. W.S 1530. Witness Christopher O'Connell, Post Office,, Eyries, Co. Cork. Identity. Section Leader, Bgde. Col., Cork 111 Bgde.; Vice 0/C, Castletownbere Battn., Cork V Bgde. Subject. Activities of Castletownbere ...
... two miles before reaching their position at a corner near the post office, about thirty yards from the barrack. Tom Barry (column 0/C) now advanced towards the enemy post and ascertained that the gate ...
... slates off the eaves of the roof of the post office where we were sheltering behind the gable. Led ...
... on the Bantry-Glengariff road to await a convoy of Auxiliaries, but the enemy did not turn up. When we withdrew from this position, the column was divided. The men from the western battalions Bantry ...
... -3- was no Volunteer organisation in that area or in Ardgroom through which we had passed. In fact, there was no Volunteer organisation nearer to us than Bantry on one side, and Kenmare on the other. We were in a very isolated district. The day was very wet, and we halted at Lauragh. We had brought ...
... were: Bandon, Clonakilty, Dunmanway, Bantry, Skibbereen. The first officers of Cork III brigade were1 ...
... . I travelled by sea from Castletownbere to Bantry, and then moved across the country to Scart where ...
... through Comhola to Kealkil. We then followed the old Bantry-Cork road through Coosaun Gap where we halted ...
... was divided into two brigades. The battalions at the western end of the old brigade Bantry, Castletownbere ...
WS Ref #: 862 , Witness: (i) Michael Spillane, Bohercael, Killarney. (ii) Michael J. O'Sullivan, 5 New St., Killarney, Co. Kerry.
... was found to be Vickery of Bantry. Also, the words 'Up Sinn Féin' were painted on the side and covered over ... ' was a murder gang who had shot Crowley, the cripple boy, in Bantry and carried out other shootings ... and one time stationed tin Killarney; Connell of Tralee, and a clerk in the D.I's office ...
... Hotel) Dick Carey (Post Office Staff). ...
... Spillane first. Tommy Carey in the Post Office, one of the S.S. men, got young Summers, a telegram ...
... of the ambush and of Cummins' death. This was tapped by Carey in the Post Office, word sent to Michael ...
... -24- in time from three lorries of military passing by. As they continued on their tray across the fields Mick Spillane looked back and saw a man stretched across the ditch and looking after them with a scowl on his face. Shortly after Dick Carey, the Battalion S.S. man in the Post Office ...
... in the Post Office and John Keogh in. the International Hotel. Furthermore, he often, on receiving ...
... going into a Solicitor's office in Killarney. In normal times there should be nothing suspicious about ...
WS Ref #: 1699 , Witness: William Powell, Officer IRA, Cork, 1921
... on fire. The barrack and Post Office were under one roof with a dividing wall. We planned to get into the Post Office and, breaking through the roof of same, to get on to the roof of the R.I.C. Barrack. We entered the Post Office through a window in the gable end, taking with us a barrel of paraffin oil ...
... post in Crookstown and was removed to Cork Gaol where I was detained until 15th August 1923, when I ...
... 8. examination by members of the battalion staff, were re-posted in the local post offices. They were endorsed "Censored by I.R.A.". As far as I can recollect, no information of military value was obtained in these raids. These raids were carried out by men from Kilmurry company. Normal parades ...
WS Ref #: 510 , Witness: Frank Thorton, Member IRB & IV Dublin, 1913-16; Deputy Assistant Director of Intelligence, IRA 1919-21
... , and they went off in the direction of the Post Office, but for some unforeseen reason, when nearing the Post Office, they started to double. The men in some of our positions to the right saw what they took to be British troops, evidently running towards the Post Office, and opened fire on this group ...
... 15. Post Office without casualties I was instructed to bring my men across the road and occupy ... directions, as all shells missing the Post Office front and rere eventually hit us. On Thursday the line ... of the Post Office. And here comes the first incident that flashes into my mind at the mention of Easter ...
... at the G.P.O. on Easter Monday night, 1916, we marched into the yard at the rere of the Post Office ... was ordered, after resting and drawing rations, to proceed to our own post at Fairview. My brother ... of old fr5iends, I was ordered to take my twelve men to the Express Office to reinforce Sean ...
... ., and Paddy O'Keeffe, the late Clerk of the Dáil, succeeded in reaching the Post Office, but all efforts on our part to contact the Post Office for further instructions instructions failed ...
... Rising, as did also my sister, Nora, who was a member of Cumann na mBan. Hugh was in the Post Office ...
... was instructed to evacuate the position and return to the Post Office. On arriving at the ...
... 17. 11 flying on the burned-out Imperial Hotel for about three days after the Insurrection was over. On Thursday there was an attempt to shell the Post Office a with the 18 pounder from Parnell Monument. The gun crew were sniped so effectively while trying to get the gun into position ...
... 18. Y.M.C.A. - an incident occurred there which is described in preceding chapters.. Very heavy shellfire continued all day Thursday and Friday, and shells which missed the Post Office from either the Park or the River end invariably hit. the buildings either to our right or left or our own ...
... building and hit the front of the Freeman's Journal Office, now the Capitol Cinema, and blew a huge hole ... of the three windows in the room furthest from the explosion was found still at his post, not wounded ...
... dropping a hand-made canister bomb on this party. However, they passed safely by, and even past our post ... of Friday morning, there was a terrific noise from the direction of Middle Abbey St. Every post ...
... funds, and our Head Office at 56 Bachelor's Walk was one of the main calling stations for people ... Cullen, who was Acting Quartermaster General, Tom's office at the time being at 32, Bachelor's walk ...
... -camp, was a regular caller every day at the office. Mr. Daithy ó Donnchadha called regularly at the office to collect the gold which had been deposited during the day for Dáil Éireann. He was escorted ...
... 48. "Mr. O'Reilly, like not a few who fought in the Rising, found when he came back to Dublin that the position he had occupied before Easter Week, was no longer available to him. His former employer, however,, offered him an alternative post. "As this would have taken him to Belfast, and thus ...
... , but was informed, by the General Manager that he wanted to see me in his office immediately ...
... 29. prison left with very bad teeth.' I remember on one occasion both Harry Boland and I arrived down at the doctor's office with badly swollen jaws as a result of bad neuralgia, or toothache. The method of curing it was both drastic and dramatic. We were gripped by two warders,. pushed ...
... , and the nearest man to the Chaplain's office dashed in and seized whatever copies of the "Independent" he could ...
... office in Dawson St. We went to the Mansion House afterwards and got our photograph taken ...
... 65. of protests and we informed him that unless we got the clothes that we demanded we would continue with our programme. He promised to get in touch with the Home Office immediately and in about ten days he got a letter which he mis-read and the next thing we knew was that three of four ...
... returned to Dublin on several occasions and, by arrangement with my own office, and on instructions ...